Deadliest Catch - Season 8
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Air Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.174 (164 votes)
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The Gamble
Season 8 - Episode 1
A slashed crab quota has captains reeling before the boats hit the water. With the fleet set to fight over half the catch, each skipper is f...
Turf War
Season 8 - Episode 2
With the fleet split, a tale of two fisheries emerges. On the Blue grounds, a captains' bet has the boats jockeying for position. On the Red...
Weak Links
Season 8 - Episode 3
As the fleet grinds through injuries and mental mistakes, the Bering Sea exposes soft spots and weak links in each crew. While the skippers ...
The Hook
Season 8 - Episode 4
Halfway through the King crab gauntlet, the beaten-down crews must dig deep to get over the midseason hump. As the crab counts dwindle and t...
Alien Abduction
Season 8 - Episode 5
Past the halfway point of the King Crab season, man and machine alike show signs of wear under the brutal hand of the Bering Sea. While repa...
Vital Signs
Season 8 - Episode 6
As king crab season nears the finish line, the crew of The Wizard faces a life or death situation as a deckhand collapses and struggles to h...
I Don't Wanna Die
Season 8 - Episode 7
In a scramble to help their collapsed greenhorn, the Wizard crew calls in a Coast Guard helicopter. For the rest of the fleet, it's a race t...
The Aftermath
Season 8 - Episode 8
In the aftermath of an arctic hurricane, the fleet struggles to reach the finish line of a brutal king crab season. Poor fishing and quarrel...
Nowhere to Go But Down
Season 8 - Episode 9
It's winter in Dutch Harbor and the fleet prepares to hunt Opilio crab. The season looks promising with the quota up and the price high, but...
Rise and Fall
Season 8 - Episode 10
With unrelenting northerly winds bearing down on the fleet, every skipper steels himself for battle with the descending polar ice pack. And ...
No Exit
Season 8 - Episode 11
Across the fleet, captains battle the descending polar ice pack to save their pots, and it's a losing war. The Northwestern and Wizard strug...
Collision Course
Season 8 - Episode 12
The polar ice pack invades the opilio crab grounds, forcing the captains to make a decision: grab their gear and run, or keep fishing and fi...
Landlocked
Season 8 - Episode 13
The ice pack has a choke hold on the Bering Sea opilio grounds. Nearly iced up, captains across the fleet must make the call to stay or go. ...
Fearless Leaders
Season 8 - Episode 14
One of the worst icing events in history recedes making it possible for some of the boats to return. One boat suffers a total blackout while...
Release the Beast
Season 8 - Episode 15
Two brothers find themselves in the same dire situation that sunk their father's boat. After a midseason hiatus, the fleet returns to the Be...
The Bitter, Bloody End
Season 8 - Episode 16
In this special two-hour close to a merciless opilio season, a veteran deckhand pays for a mistake in flesh. Then in the final hours some me...